Key Takeaways

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Personality involves enduring traits of thoughts, emotions, and behavior that are extremely difficult to change and last throughout the person’s life.

• Personality largely develops in childhood but can continue to change throughout one’s lifetime.

• There are different theories on personality development that vary as to whether it is largely an inherited biological phenomenon or a product of one’s environment.

• The testing of personality can include self-report questionnaires and projective testing.

• Personality disorders fall into three categories and represent social and emotional difficulties in relating to the world that are very difficult to change.